Movie Poster Development

Design #1

For my first design I decided to conform to the majority of film posters by using a conventional billing block, release date, web link, title and main image. The Title takes up 25% of the who image, making it bold and eye catching.

I chose to use this image as it creates some enigmas, why is there a bloody knife and what does it have to do with the book? Thus drawing in an alternative audience who are interested in intellectual puzzles rather than the horror genre.

Design #2

For this design I decided to use a conventional billing block, release date and web link. However, I decided to have the main image as a book shelf with the title of the film along the binding of one of the books.

An initial problem with this may be that it won’t stand out enough. I will overcome this problem by changing the contrast and brightness of the binding with the title on it and make the others slightly more dull.